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“‘We had to stop some operations until the [U.S.] elections were over,’ said a senior Iraqi Defense Ministry official who requested anonymity…
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He is also a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War.
The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like…
How can I not start on a personal note today? Election night was a roller coaster. I had written a piece a…
Let me, following my own roundabout route, suggest some of the factors all you political jockeys and the rest of us election-night…
Looked at realistically Osama bin Laden’s intervention in our presidential election was undoubtedly an act of immediate organizational weakness, not strength. Had…
Last week, on Tomdispatch.com, Teri Wills Allison, a mother from Texas whose soldier son is now in Iraq, wrote an up-close and…
Quotes of the day: “In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t…
“‘I feel we’re going to be here for years and years and years,’ said Lance Cpl. Edward Elston, 22, of Hackettstown, N.J.…
The year is 2030 and President Pierce Bush addresses the nation: “My fellow countrymen, in the past, enemies of America required massed…
Every now and then, an article catches my eye that seems to sum up the worst of Washington-based access journalism (“just the…